<p>I read on the FAQ that you can transfer up to 60 credits of the required 124 credits to graduate. </p>
<p>If I transfer credits, will my Columbia GPA include letter grades that I transfer over? Or is the Columbia GPA calculated independent of transfer letter grades, despite the fact that those credits were graded?</p>
<p>Also, is it possible to graduate in 2 years, if I transfer up to 60 credits? I am interested in going to Columbia GS to earn a second bachelor's degree, and I was hoping that I could transfer most of my general education credits.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Columbia GPA is Columbia classes only (for good and ill). They take the credit, but ignore the letters.</p>
<p>If you have 100+ credits from another university you’ll definitely transfer the max of 60. In that case it’s possible, but difficult. You’ll need 124 to graduate, so that’s 16 credits per semester. Say you take 9 credits over the summer (VERY aggressive, but doable) then you’d only need around 14 per semester on average.</p>
<p>Basically, doing it in 4 semesters is very difficult. Doing it in 5 including a summer is tough, but possible. 6 is pretty standard.</p>
<p>Be aware of the core requirements as well. They can be a ***** that really screws you up. In particular foreign language, art, music are troublesome for many. </p>
<p>However that leaves out the toughest part, which is fulfilling your major requirements. If the department requires certain sequences, you may be in rough shape to take everything on time. It may turn out that you would need to take a single extra class the fall after you want to graduate, or something silly like that. What major are you considering?</p>
<p>Blankety123, I am graduating in May and did exactly what you are hoping to do. Columbia accepted 60 of my undergraduate credits from my first bachelor’s degree. That’s the max. Luckily, a bunch of those credits counted toward the core requirements. What will be helpful for you is finding the syllabus from the art history, music survey, etc. classes that you previously took as an undergraduate so that you can demonstrate there is a similarity with the requirements. I am an art history major and it was easy enough to show the department that I took two sculpting classes at my other school to meet the studio art requirement that I have for my major. With my 60 credits and some of those credits covering the core requirements, I found that I could complete my major in two years. An additional bonus for you will be if you speak a second language as that will knock off another four classes. So my schedule was five courses each semester and two classes over the summer. However, please be aware that the school will not provide you any scholarship money for summer classes. However, you can use Stafford loan money. You can go to the General Studies website to check out the core requirements and see if possibly any of your completed coursework might be considered for this transfer of credit. The only downside for me was that I took a statistics class when I was in graduate school, and GS does not accept graduate credits for the undergraduate degree. I had to take a statistics class again but I didn’t mind as it was really interesting and we used computer programs which didn’t exist when I took the class earlier. Good luck! Let me know if you have additional questions.</p>